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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 8th December
2006. Registration No.
0082.
Arms:
Argent, on a chevron
Gules between three
harps Sable, three
crosses couped of the
field.
Crest:
An arm in armour embowed
Argent, holding in the
hand a jousting-lance
proper.
Motto:
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
Assumed:
USA 2002
Private Registration:
American College of
Heraldry, 26 September
2006, Registration No.
2931
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The
armiger assumed arms
during his service as
the Broward County
(Florida) Historic
Preservation Officer, an
appointed office under
the Broward County Board
of County Commissioners.
He had previously served
as the appointed
Miami-Dade County
(Florida) Historic
Preservation Officer.
The armiger holds a BA
in History from Loyola
University of New
Orleans, an MA in
History & Historical
Archaeology from the
University of
Massachusetts-Boston and
a JD from the University
of Miami in Coral
Gables. He was inducted
into the following
academic societies:
Alpha Sigma Nu, Phi
Alpha Theta and Blue
Key.
He has also been
admitted to the Florida
Bar. The armiger
descends from Jacob Egg
(Eck), a gun maker &
farmer, who came to
Pennsylvania in 1746
from Kanton Solothurn,
Switzerland, and was
confirmed in a 125-acre
patent of land outside
Philadelphia by
Governors Thomas &
Richard Penn in 1747.
Jacob Egg was also the
grandfather to famed
English gun maker Durs
Egg (1748-1831),
great-great grandfather
to famed English painter
Augustus Leopold Egg, RA
(1816-1863) and the
ancestor to the English
family of the name. The
arms reflect the
armiger's devotion to
history, his family
& his Roman Catholic
faith. The chevron is a
pun on a German word for
"corner" ("eck") and
alludes to other Eck
arms, as does the crest.
The crosses allude to
his Swiss ancestry and
his Christian faith. The
harps recall his Irish
ancestors and the
overall scheme is an
allusion to MacDermot
arms, from which his
paternal grandmother
descends. The motto is a
borrowing from that of
the Jesuit order, in
whose colonial mission
at Bally the family
first worshipped during
the 18th century outside
of Philadelphia, and
whose universities have
since educated many of
the family members in
the United States for
generations. The armiger
has been appointed to
serve on several boards
and committees by three
Florida Secretaries of
State and as the chair
of the City of Fort
Lauderdale Historic
Preservation Board. He
currently serves as a
trustee on the Florida
Trust for Historic
Preservation, the Loyola
University Library
Visiting Committee and
the Stranahan House
Museum (Fort Lauderdale)
executive committee.
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